Welcome to Hidden Dragon Karate-Do

Welcome to Hidden Dragon Karate-Do. Our vision is for a local Goju Ryu Karate club based on strong family values. The club aims to deliver a fun and professional approach to learning karate and self defence techniques, with a firm focus on developed and effective technique.

If you wish to learn how to defend yourself, increase your confidence, self-discipline or self-esteem, or just improve your fitness, then you can achieve all this at Hidden Dragon Karate-Do by taking part in an activity that's both fun and rewarding. We run a number of classes at venues throughout the area run by a highly trained instructors who will guide you all the way through your journey. Whether you are a complete beginner or have some previous experience, you'll be made very welcome.

These pages contain some basic information about our Dojos, classes, instructors and events, but karate is something you need to experience first hand to totally appreciate. If you feel that this might be the activity for you, please contact me by email or through our Facebook page (details at the bottom of the page).

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Accreditation

Hidden Dragon Karate-Do is a member club of the Independent Martial Arts Sports Association (IMASA) and all students have martial arts insurance which covers you for classes, seminars and tournaments through individual registration with IMASA.

Due to the huge success of the 2018 party at the awesome venue of Morley Cricket Club, we have booked to hold this year’s party and awards ceremony there again.

More details closer to the time….

Summer Camp 2019

As always, we are looking to hold this year’s Summer Camp on the last weekend in July, subject to site availability. We are looking at a couple of sites at the seaside for this year, so get your bucket and spade at the ready. More details to follow soon, once the site has been decided upon.

Summer Camp is always a great opportunity to get to know your instructor team and the rest of the students and is tremendous fun for everyone in your family. Don’s miss out on the 5th HDKD Summer Camp weekend – it’s gonna be awesome!

Charity Katathon

Saturday 23rd March : 12pm-4pm : ActiveZone

This year’s chosen charity is Team Daniel (nominated by Victoria Wilson)

Team Daniel is an incredible local charity based in Gildersome run by Emma Oliver. In February 2017 Emma’s 15 year old son Daniel committed suicide during his GCSE year at school. Since then she has been campaigning for more support for children in schools around mental health, anxiety, stress and depression. Victoria says this is a cause very important to her and surely to anyone with children, especially those kids struggling to cope with the stress of exams or other anxieties.

It will be a fun packed afternoon with stalls, fun stuff and, of course, our 3 hour sponsored Katathon.

Sponsor forms available in classes from Wednesday (20th Feb). We’ll also be handing out Change for Change jars again for all your loose change as it proved so popular last time.

Do you own a business or know anyone who does? We are looking for kind donations of prizes for our raffle. Please put out your feelers and let’s get some awesome prizes again this year.

Get involved and help Team Daniel help local school kids and raise awareness of youth suicide.

Kata Video Competition

Love your kata? Enter our Kata video competition and show us how awesome you are. We are running competitions for all our grade kata.

you’re invited to send Anne-Marie a video of you doing your favourite kata. All you need to do is perfect your kata and then take a video of yourself doing it full focus to the best of your ability.

You can enter as many different kata as you like, but send a different email for each kata you’d like to enter – only one video of each kata please! The instructors will then pick a winner for each of our grade kata.

The winner of each grade kata will have their video put on the club website to help other students improve their own kata.

On 23rd March 2019 we will be holding our Charity Katathon. We would like students to nominate a worthy local charity that will benefit this year from our fundraising efforts.

We always try to support charities which have a personal connection to a member of the club and would like students to explain their reason for nominating a particular charity. Nominated charities will be shortlisted by the instructor team and then put out to the entire club to vote on.

Nominations & reasons for nomination can be given in writing to your class instructor or sent by message to Anne-Marie. We would like any charity nominations in by 12 noon Saturday 19th January

Christmas Fun Classes

Classes from Saturday 15th December through to Thursday 20th December will include a little Christmas fun. Come in your onesies!

Post Grading & Ann-Marie's Birthday Drinks

Social time at The Needless Inn to celebrate student success at the days Higher Belt Grading and also for the old fogey’s birthday.

All students and families welcome to join us. The Needless are happy for children to come along and always give us a warm welcome.

The Needless

Scotchman Lane, Morley, LS27 0NZ.

Halloween Fun Nights

Halloween fun at classes throughout the week…

Monday 29th October at 6pm at the Gildersome dojo

Due to student request, Sensei Ben will be running a Halloween themed class on Monday 29th October at 6pm at the Gildersome dojo. Wear your best Halloween outfit for this spooky fun karate class.

Wednesday 31st October: ActivZone dojo

An evening of karate, games and spooky fun. Wear your scariest Halloween costume. This will be the very last day of the October Bring a Buddy promotion, so you can bring all your friends to share in the Halloween fun too.

Christmas Party & Awards

End of year party and annual awards presentation for student, families and friends;

There will be food, fun, music, games and frivolity (fancy dress is encouraged). Also, the bar will be open for adults.

As always, we aim to encourage families to come along and share the fun and celebration and so tickets are priced as follows: £10 per ticket or £30 for a family ticket (up to 5 people including atleast 1 adult).

Don’t miss the highlight of the HDKD calendar.

Bring a Buddy

All throughout October we ran our Bring a Buddy promotion. The lucky winner of £100 worth of karate goodies was Harvey Blenkinsop. The prize will be awarded at the Xmas party